{"id":67818,"date":"2024-11-21T10:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T01:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/21\/china-pacific-islands-aid-us-relationship-influence"},"modified":"2024-11-21T10:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T01:27:22","slug":"resurgence-in-china-aid-to-pacific-amid-tussle-with-us-for-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67818","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Resurgence\u2019 in China aid to Pacific amid tussle with US for influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinktank\u2019s report says Beijing has emerged from Covid-induced lull with a \u2018more competitive, politically targeted model\u2019 of engagement in the region<\/p>\n<p>China has renewed efforts to curry favour in Pacific island nations, a new report has found, after charting a \u201cresurgence\u201d in Beijing-backed aid and infrastructure funding.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past decade, China has lavished billions of dollars on Pacific island nations, part of ongoing efforts to build influence in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/sep\/25\/biden-pacific-islands-aid-china\">competition with the US<\/a> and its allies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/21\/china-pacific-islands-aid-us-relationship-influence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinktank\u2019s report says Beijing has emerged from Covid-induced lull with a \u2018more competitive, politically targeted model\u2019 of engagement in the regionChina has renewed efforts to curry favour in Pacific island nations, a new report has found, after char&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,50,591,874,267,63,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-kiribati","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-solomon-islands","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67819,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67818\/revisions\/67819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}